Monday, December 12, 2005

Working from home is good for the company

Trust has been the biggest barrier to supporting people teleworking but that may be set to change. By Wendy Taylor.

AUSTRALIANS have eagerly embraced the key tools and technology - a mobile phone, a notebook computer and broadband connection - that make working away from the office, a realistic option for a host of professionals, managers, sales staff and technicians.

In 2002, more than 72 per cent of all Australian households and 90 per cent of households with an income of more than $75,000 had access to mobile phones, and notebook computers and broadband have been taken up with similar enthusiasm. Since pioneering the notebook computer 20 years ago, Toshiba Information Systems Division (ISD) has sold 1.25 million notebook computers in Australia and New Zealand and in the last year the number of broadband subscribers has more than doubled. Today there are more than 2.1 million broadband subscribers in Australia.



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